I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.The Voyage Out, 1915
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Virginia Woolf was a celebrated English writer and modernist literary figure known for her novels, essays, and works of criticism. She is acclaimed for her stream-of-consciousness writing style and feminist perspectives, with notable works including "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse," and "Orlando." Woolf was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential intellectuals and artists in early 20th century London.
1882–1941·lived 59 years
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.The Voyage Out, 1915
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, 1881
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.The Waves, p. 64, 1931
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?The Waves, p. 92, 1931
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.The Hours, 2002
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.The Hours, Michael Cunningham, 2002
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.The Leaning Tower, The Essays, vol. 6, p. 274, 1940
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.The Waves, The Hogarth Press, 1931
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.On pain – Virginia Woolf and the language of poets and patients, Br J Pain, 2021
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?Night and Day, 1919
That’s all 13 quotes by Virginia Woolf.